Description for A Painted House
Hardcover. 8vo.Good clean copy. first edition
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. it was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age ... Read more
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. it was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Century
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712670395
SKU
KEX0290906
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for A Painted House
Worlds away from his usual legal dramas, this departure for John Grisham has produced a wonderfully evocative novel. Set in the late summer of 1952 in the cotton-growing regions of Arkansas, the story is told through the eyes of eight-year-old Luke Chandler. Born and raised on his grandfather's cotton farm, like his father before him, he dreams of a world ... Read more